Plasma 6 comes out February 2024, so you don't have to wait until the middle of the year at least. Beta should still be this year if you're in a hurry.
It fell flat for me when Michael left. The Office without Michael sort of feels like Scrubs without J.D. or Turk, it just doesn't work as well. I still enjoyed the rest but it got noticeable weaker.
When Teams doesn't work I restart it and try again. When Docker doesn't work I spend an hour debugging why my pipeline fails only to realize Docker for Windows messed up my permissions.
Not to say Teams is good, Teams is pretty horrible as well.
Funny that you ask, WSL was what made me switch to Linux. I previously used Hyper-V because that was what was available back then and it was a nightmare. Slow to start, slow to run and constantly needing a reset after a reboot because "something happened™".
I switched to WSL when it was new and it was much better than Hyper-V but it had major issues with volumes back then. Performance was abysmal when mounting a volume on a Windows drive and when using the WSL filesystem you had the reverse issue under Windows with your IDE and git.
There were also two big issues with reproducibility on Windows (both with Hyper-V and WSL), namely:
Line endings changing to /r/n, breaking all shell scripts with it
File permissions changing to 777, breaking many applications with it
Line endings changing happened a lot because git on Windows defaults to changing line endings on pull and/or if someone on your team commits a file opened by an IDE on Windows it will change the line endings a lot of times as well.
In the end I spent so much time inside of WSL that I started wondering why I was running Windows in the first place and just switched over. Proton played a big part as well but Docker was the main point.
Depending on where you can place it, you might want a short throw or ultra short throw projector. Be careful with the ultra short throw projectors ("Laser TV"). Many of them are starting to introduce smart TV features since they are becoming more mainstream. Try to stick with known projector companies like Optoma, BenQ, Sony, Epson and JVC.
As for the screen, don't worry to much about it. Get a white screen without any gain to avoid hot spots or dim pictures. Make sure to max out the possible size for the location, you will regret it later if you don't. If you can, get a screen with a solid aluminium/steel frame and mount it on a wall. Do not bother with cheap pull down screens, they will start to show creases and folds within the first years.
Essentially you trade some contrast and color for a much bigger screen size. If you can live with that they are incredible.
Like is glare / not being able to see an issue?
Generally, you want to use a projector in a light controlled room. If you cannot block out most sunlight/ambient light, it might not be feasible in that room.
As you approach more expensive projectors (like 3000/5000$+) you can get a sufficient picture in a bright room but the contrast will be severely lacking - good enough to watch some soccer but not something you want to watch your new 4k blu-ray on.
The darkest possible black in a projector picture will always be the remaining ambient light in your room. The darker you can get your light levels, the better.
How much of the wall color shows through, or do you have to have a special screen?
While you can project directly onto the wall I would recommend a projector screen, even a cheap one will do. I project onto a regular 200$ white projector screen and can't complain even after years of usage. Since light produced by the projector bounces of your walls, it's recommended to black out the surroundings of your screen, even painting the wall behind the screen black/gray will immensely increase the contrast of your image.
That's strange, my headphones cost about 300€ and there is no way a smartphone headphone jack can even drive them at a sufficient volume due to their higher impedance.
I would imagine that gets worse on more expensive ones?
SteamVR development also picked up pace the last few months and VR support was added to gamescope a while back. So something must be coming, and it's Linux based.
Their backup system does handle app data, but only if the app does not opt out of it. Which is an incredibly stupid system. It's my phone, if I tell it to backup up my data it better back up everything. I don't care if some banking app thinks it's too good to be backed up.
However, as a long time rooted phone user I know that the rooting community is always 2 steps ahead of Google so most likely nothing will change.
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I recently switched to a phone with only microG installed, absolutely 0 Google services.
It works insanely well nowadays.